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I have my notification preferences setup so that it seems me an email every time someone posts to a discussion that I started, or a discussion I commented on. In the desktop version, there's four little icons on the right column. One is for account preferences. I think that's where I changed it.

I wanted the design to echo the look of Google Plus, but still be readable in book format. What do you think? I kept the "Owner" and "Moderator" tags, but they're easy to get rid of if you don't like them.

I set this up as 6" x 9" and it will likely be around 350 pages when done. Will probably cost between US$7 and US$8 to print on Lulu.

Still to do:

Get feedback on design (that's what this thread is for)

Get permission from all contributors

Put together a list of contributors section, with whatever contact info people want to share

Write an introduction

Include Richard Abbott's awesome photographs

Make a cover

See if I can find a volunteer to give it a final once-over

Set up the project on Lulu

You'll note that "edit" is not on that list. If someone wants to edit or even spellcheck, I can set you up with the files, but I'm putting the words out largely the way we all posted them.

The layout is very nice. I'd personally be inclined to drop all the +1s and moderator/owner tags. Actually, I also be in favour of just putting people's first names - Chris, Clash, Ray, Michael, Richard, etc. Do we have any instances where two first names are the same? That's probably more work you didn't need, though.

I am still having a buddy help to import the data from the old Community here, but I like what you're doing.

It may make sense to keep the post title on the top of subsequent pages as discussion goes long. Probably also you want to start each post with a page break, so e.g. your page 12-13 would have whitespace at the end of p12 and p13 would start with "Chapter 2"

Late to the party here (for some reason the notification emails didn't flag this one up for me) but like others, I would say this is a great job you're doing. And such a lot of work I think I probably said this before, but you certainly have my permission to use anything I rabbitted on about in all this (and the pics).

I took out the Moderator/Owner titles and all the pluses on the comments. I kept them on the root posts as a slight nod to the G+ format and also because in later chapters we often skipped the summary and it just looks better if there is something there.

I added the chapter titles to the running heads. I know the running feet on the prologue sections are screwed up, I'll fix them at a later stage.

Sorry, Chris, about the first names only, but we do have a few duplicates and other issues.

@RichardAbbott Yes, thank you! If you could convert the following photos to grayscale, 300dpi, that would be a big help:

Feb 17, 2018 (3 images, pages 55-56)

Mar 25, 2018 (2 images, pages 128-129)

Apr 11, 2018 (page 157)

May 5, 2018 (2 images, pages 201-202)

May 28, 2018 (page 235)

Jun 8, 2018 (page 255)

Aug 22, 2018 (page 394)

Oct 21, 2018 (page 411)

Also, I'm considering a few different photos for the cover. In addition to grayscale, can I get the highest-resolution color version you have of these:

Feb 17, 2018 (3 images, pages 55-56)

Apr 11, 2018 (page 157)

May 5, 2018 (page 201 only)

Jun 8, 2018 (page 255)

@Ray_Otus I emailed you but got no response. Do you have better versions of the sketches shown on pages 57-58? I'm currently working with a low-quality screen capture because G+ won't let me download the images themselves.